links for 2007-10-31
Posted by derickson on Oct 31st, 2007
2007
Oct 31
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Two new citizen journalism sites plan to cover the 2008 elections. Will they change the way politics is conducted online?
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Watch the 30 Days of Night trailer as well as a mini-documentary about the history of vampires.
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A ridiculously long list of tech tools for nonprofits. Not much more than a listing of what the tools are, tags and links to the tools themselves, but it has almost 2000 tools.
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Classic Dog Bites Man Story! A pack of hunting dogs shot an Iowa man as he went to retrieve a fallen pheasant, authorities said.
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The latest estimates show 5 percent of electricity used in the United States goes to standby power, a phenomenon energy efficiency experts find all the more terrifying as energy prices rise and the planet warms. That amounts to about $4 billion a year.
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Work colleagues who spend their day gossiping, organizing their home lives, or who press "reply all" on e-mails are among the biggest nuisances in the office, according to a survey released on Monday.
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It’s an innovative online tool for organizing and sharing files within a team or workgroup. Tag-based file storage.
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Nonetheless, some privacy advocates are proposing scrapping the system entirely because they can’t agree with the people who use the system on how to give domain name owners more options when they register — such as designating third-party agents.
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The residential real estate market may be troubled, but property-focused Web sites are still attracting visitors and investors.
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ALTHOUGH 50 million people in the United States have some form of physical or mental disability, they spend money just as easily as others. But there are few efficient ways for advertisers to reach them, and that’s what a new Web site, Disaboom.com, hop
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Social networking site for people with disabilities.
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MySpace still dominates the category with nearly 80% market share of visits to the top 20 sites. US Visits to MySpace increased by 70% from April 2006 to April 2007, while visits to Facebook were up 126% and visits to Bebo were up 184%.
